{
  "id": "clustal",
  "name": "Clustal",
  "category": "people_search",
  "priority": "high",
  "jurisdictions": ["US"],
  "search": {
    "method": "url_pattern",
    "url": "https://www.clustal.org/",
    "fetch": "web_extract",
    "match_signal": "record",
    "by": ["name"],
    "url_patterns": {
      "name_index": "https://www.clustal.org/people-search/{letter}/{first-last}/",
      "name_state": "https://www.clustal.org/people-search/{letter}/{first-last}/{st}/",
      "record": "https://www.clustal.org/record/{first-last}-{8charID}/"
    },
    "url_format_quirks": [
      "Name index: /people-search/{first-initial}/{first-last}/ e.g. /people-search/k/jane-public/ (lowercase, first letter of LAST name as the {letter} segment, hyphen-joined name). Optional state refine appends /{st}/ lowercase 2-letter.",
      "Detail (removable unit): /record/{first-last}-{8charID}/ e.g. /record/jane-public-a1b2c3d4/ (opaque mixed-case 8-char id). The index page links each match to its /record/ URL.",
      "Readable via web_extract (no hard bot gate as of 2026-07-01). Rich profile: age/DOB, current+prior addresses, phones, emails, relatives, neighbors, associates.",
      "Name only: search is by name(+state); no reverse phone/email/address path observed. NOTE: clustal.org squats the 'Clustal' bioinformatics brand but IS a real people-search/data-broker site ('Find Your DNA Relatives'), not the sequence-alignment tool - do not dismiss it as a false positive."
    ]
  },
  "optout": {
    "tier": "T0",
    "method": "web_form",
    "url": "https://www.clustal.org/privacy-control/",
    "requires": {
      "profile_url": true,
      "email_verification": true,
      "captcha": false,
      "gov_id": false,
      "account": false,
      "phone_callback": false,
      "payment": false
    },
    "inputs": ["profile_url", "contact_email"],
    "notes": "Opt-out at /privacy-control/ using the /record/ profile URL; support help@clustal.org. Verify the exact form fields + any CAPTCHA live before submitting (requires flags below are provisional from the site's opt-out copy, not yet a live form walk-through).",
    "email": "help@clustal.org",
    "est_processing_days": 7,
    "reappearance_risk": "medium"
  },
  "last_verified": "2026-07-01",
  "source": "BADBOOL",
  "confidence": "curated"
}